Quora's Poe now enables users to develop and distribute web applications

Poe, Quora's subscription-based cross-platform aggregator for AI-powered chatbots like Anthropic's Claude and OpenAI's GPT-4o, has launched a feature called Previews that lets users create interactive apps directly in chats of chatbot.

Preview allows Poe users to create data visualizations, games, and even drum machines by typing phrases like “Analyze the information in this report and turn it into an interactive, easy-to-use presentation that helps me understand them. » Apps can be built using multiple chatbots (e.g. Meta's Llama 3 and GPT-4o) and use information from uploaded files, including videos, and can be shared with anyone via a link . Previews is very similar to Anthropic's recently introduced Artifacts, a dedicated workspace where users can edit and add AI-generated content like code, documentation, etc. However, while Artifacts is limited to Anthropic models, Previews currently supports HTML output from any chatbot, complete with CSS and Javascript capabilities (and Quora promises to offer more in the future). QUORA says that Google's Claude 3.5 SONNET, GPT-4O, Gemini 1.5 Pro, which "Excel" for programming works well.

The journalist could not test the application to create an application in a preview that needs to pay $ 20 per month to the PoE Premium Plan. But some online demos (albeit simple ones created by the Poe team) work more or less as advertised.

"Glimpse" comes at a somewhat awkward moment for Poe, after a Wired investigation last month found that Poe had allowed users to download paid articles from on-demand media. Wired claims that it was able to obtain copies of articles from publishers such as The New York Times and The Atlantic using its internal chatbot Quora Assistant.